Pre-season predictions can often come back to bite you, but it appears our writers and the BBC team can be pretty happy looking back on their predictions for the season.

It may have been a season that started with worries over a possible relegation fight for Hull City , but there was no sense of that when we laid out our hopes for the 2018/19 campaign, with City expected to finish between 12th and 15th place in the table. And while nobody got City's final 13th position spot on, we weren't too far off.

The fact nobody called either Norwich City or Sheffield United to go up automatically probably won't come as a surprise, who did? Stoke City were the obvious favourites and that was reflected in our predictions, so what a let down they proved to be in finishing 16th.

Here's a look back at our pre-season predictions and some of the key things that were said.

Philip Buckingham

City : 14th

Top two: Stoke, Middlesbrough

Play-offs: Nottingham Forest, West Brom, Swansea, Aston Villa

Relegated: Bolton, Rotherham, Wigan

Expert view: "I do sense a greater humility among this squad. Perhaps it was down to City being a relegated Premier League team that meant so many believed another promotion was possible last August but the targets being set this time around are not fanciful. There’s a quiet confidence that this new-look team might surprise a few. Will City have enough to be a top-six team? Every instinct says no, but the Tigers should have enough to improve on last season."

Expert view: "City don’t have the smallest budget and the success of Cardiff City and Millwall last season showed anything is possible, but at present it is hard to envisage the Tigers finishing higher than mid-table."

Expert view: "It’s felt a different and better summer with a feeling that some lessons have been learned and the club are trying to change their modus operandi. Don’t get me wrong there are still big challenges especially in re-building the relationship with supporters but I sense in the club accounts there’ll be a sum allocated for “materials for building bridges”. It’ll be interesting to see the attendances."

Matt Dean (BBC Radio Humberside/Look North)

City : 11th

Top two: Stoke and West Brom

Play-offs: Derby, Swansea, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa

Relegated : Reading, Bolton and Rotherham

Expert view: "The route of going for mainly young players seems to have brought ones with an appetite to impress to the club and listening to the opinions of supporters who’ve seen them play, the feedback has been largely encouraging. I’d like to think Nigel Adkins would be able to extract the most out of them as he demonstrated with callow talent during his most successful spells in management at Southampton and Scunthorpe United."

Expert view: "I can’t see anything other than mid-table safety for the Tigers this season. Given the predicament they found themselves in last season, that represents progress for a club who are putting trust in youth."